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“A surfeit of ballads makes for odd ideas about romance.”
― Holly Black, Ironside

“But that’s the great contradiction of colonialism.’ Cathy uttered this like a simple matter of fact. ‘It’s built to destroy that which it prizes most.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“What an effort I make to be myself. I struggle against a tide in a boat with just enough room for my two feet in a perilous and fragile balance.

Living is an act I did not premeditate. I blossomed in the dark. I am only valid for myself. I must live little by little, it's no good living everything at once.”
― Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

“A knight without mercy is without honor.”
― John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights